Road Trip South: Dauphin Island
Orange Beach, AL to New Orleans, LA — Orange Beach is a mass of hotels and condos along the beach. Parking at a Gulf State Park parking lot, we went […]
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Road Trip South: Mishap in Chattahoochee
Chattahoochee, FL to Orange Beach, AL — After spending the night in Chattahoochee, Lucy and I departed for Orange Beach, AL, but not before trying to find a post office […]
Road Trip South: The Travel Spoon
St. Marys, GA to Chattahoochee, FL — Along the way to Chattahoochee, Lucy and I caught up on our past year in grad school. She’s studying youth; I prefer older […]
The Beginning of a Road Trip South, Deep South
Charleston, SC to St. Marys, GA – Bailey, the young woman at the hostel, told me that there really weren’t a lot of restaurants serving local food in Charleston. There […]
The Would You Rather? Game
Sewanee, TN – I play a game with the 12-year old whom I tutor called, Would you rather? We ask each other things like: Would you rather discover that the […]
So Now You Know Where I’m At
Beersheba Springs, TN – “Marathon. Marathon is the Greek word for fennel. In Latin, it’s foeniculum. In Spanish, it’s hinojo with a silent ‘h’. That one doesn’t follow like the […]
The Price of Closeness
Sewanee, TN – I remembered what the ranger told me in Arkansas: “Everything here is poisonous.” I was trying to adapt to life in Tennessee but it seemed like everything […]
Japanese Beetles
Sewanee, TN – I take offense to insects mating in front of me in the garden. When I agreed to dog-sit for my cousins for the summer, they wrote that […]
Order in the Court
Altamont, TN – If I was to learn rural Tennessee, I had to understand the people. My cousin, who sometimes mediates in the courts, offered to let me shadow him for […]
Tennessee Health Bars
Sewanee, TN – Rural Tennessee promised to hold stories and lemonade on the front porch, plus who could go wrong in a state with so many double letters? I had […]
